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Saturday, May 06, 2017

Macron's French presidential campaign emails leaked online

Emmanuel Macron, head of the political
movement En Marche !, or Onwards !, and candidate for the 2017
presidential election, is pictured through a window of his hotel during a
campaign visit in Rodez, France, May 5, 2017.
REUTERS/Regis Duvignau

Leading
French presidential candidate Emmanuel Macron's campaign said on Friday
it had been the target of a "massive" computer hack that dumped its
campaign emails online 1-1/2 days before voters choose between the
centrist and his far-right rival Marine Le Pen.Macron,
who extended his lead in the polls over Le Pen on Friday, is seen as
the frontrunner in an election billed as the most important in France in
decades. Some nine gigabytes of
data were posted by a user called EMLEAKS to Pastebin, a
document-sharing site that allows anonymous posting. It was not
immediately clear who was responsible for posting the data or if any of
it was genuine.In a statement, Macron's political movement En Marche! (Onwards!) confirmed that it had been hacked."The
En Marche! Movement has been the victim of a massive and co-ordinated
hack this evening which has given rise to the diffusion on social media
of various internal information," the statement said.An
interior ministry official declined to comment, citing French rules
that forbid any commentary liable to influence an election, and which
took effect at midnight on Friday (2200 GMT).The
French presidential election commission said in statement that it would
hold a meeting later on Saturday after Macron's campaign informed it
about the hack and publishing of the data.It
urged the media to be cautious about publishing details of the emails
given that campaigning had ended, and publishing it could lead to
criminal charges. Comments
about the email dump began to appear on Friday evening just hours
before the official ban on campaigning began. The ban is due to stay in
place until the last polling stations close on Sunday at 8 p.m. (1800
GMT).Opinion polls show
independent centrist Macron is set to beat National Front candidate Le
Pen in Sunday's second round of voting, in what is seen to be France's
most important election in decades. The latest surveys show him winning
with about 62 percent of the vote. Former
economy minister Macron's team has complained in the past about
attempts to hack its emails during a fraught campaign, blaming Russian
interests in part for the cyber attacks.On
April 26, the team said it had been the target of a series of attempts
to steal email credentials since January, but that the perpetrators had
so far failed to compromise any campaign data.In
February, the Kremlin denied that it was behind any such attacks, even
though Macron's camp renewed complaints against Russian media and a
hackers' group operating in Ukraine.In
its statement on Friday, En Marche! said that the documents released
online showed only the normal functionings of a presidential campaign,
but that authentic documents had been mixed on social media with fake
ones to sow "doubt and misinformation".

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"The
seriousness of this event is certain and we shall not tolerate that the
vital interests of democracy be put at risk," it added.The
French presidential election campaign is not the first to be
overshadowed by accusations of manipulation via computer hacking and
cyber-attacks.U.S. intelligence
agencies said in January that Russian President Vladimir Putin had
ordered hacking of the Democratic National Committee and the chairman of
Hillary Clinton's Democratic campaign to influence the election on
behalf of Donald Trump, her Republican rival who went on to win the U.S.
presidency.On Friday night as
the #Macronleaks hashtag buzzed around social media, Florian Philippot,
deputy leader of the National Front, asked on Twitter; "Will Macronleaks
teach us something that investigative journalism has deliberately
killed?"Macron spokesman Sylvain Fort, in a response on Twitter, called Philippot's tweet "vile".http://www.reuters.com/article/us-france-election-macron-leaks-idUSKBN1812AZ?il=0

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